What You Get for ... $775,000

CODY WYO FTW

The deck overlooks the Buffalo Bill Reservoir

we've had one of these before

oh really? were any of the properties built using timber milled from the property?

am actually interested in seeing, i couldn't find anything

alameda i guess. i hate the wyoming & woodstock ones.

woodstock location is kinda awesome though. it reminds me of the ice storm, which is (or is at least purportedly) buffalo iirc.

i think ice storm is connecticut, i.e. commuter distance to nyc. buffalo is a long way (from ice storm country and from woodstock)

Woodstock over Wyoming by the tiniest of margins. The views are about equal, but the interior in the Woodstock dwelling is nicer to me. The Calif one is a bit fussy looking, overall.

Maybe the Woodstock one is cheating a bit, with those beautiful autumn colours in the view pics.

Love the Alameda Craftsman but I just don't want to live with that kind of furniture forever and I'd feel like a traitor going too off-message from the obvious age and style of the house. The kind of house that, when some dilettante couple looks at it on a real-estate show, I cross my fingers that they DON'T buy it, because they don't like the original light fixtures and they think the kitchen is too small and they want to put a wine refrigerator in the dining room built-ins. I love it. I just don't want to own it.

The Wyoming lodge just has too much of its own personality for me, tho I like the vista a great deal. Woodstock wins for being the most liveable, which isn't really saying much at that the price point.

woodstock no competition as far as the house, best place to live too

i would live in all of these houses but woodstock most of all

recreation native american paraphernalia not included.

thank goodness.. voted Cody but those totems would have to go. Don't really love any of the locations for a primary residence though.

Balcony railings ("loft view 1") on the Cody dwelling would have to go too I think.

i have a really tall RV that i need to garage, so it would have to by WY for me

cody house is straight up grotesque

you are

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I like the Woodstock house but several people my parents know have that kind of country/homey/woodstove and basketwork and handicraft vibe going and none of their places would cost a third of that. Granted one of them is a woodworker himself and did everything in the house by hand, which you almost can't put a value on, but I'm just unconvinced by Update NY for the price.

which state will let me shoot trespassers?

wyoming

As of the 28th of May, 2010, 31 States have some form of Castle Doctrine and/or Stand Your Ground law. Alabama,[9] Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island,[10] South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah,[11] West Virginia and Wyoming have adopted Castle Doctrine statutes, and other states (Montana, Nebraska,[12] New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington) are currently considering "Stand Your Ground" laws of their own.[13][14][15]

woodstock is p fancy laurel prob accounts for the inflated price

New York (May not use deadly physical force if he or she knows that with complete personal safety, to oneself and others he or she may avoid the necessity of so doing by retreating; except that the actor is under no duty to retreat if he or she is in his or her dwelling and not the initial aggressor.)

wyoming

― ice cr?m, Friday, January 7, 2011 10:17 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and the other two?

i think youll find that in practice shooting intruders will be looked upon much more favorably in 'wyoming'

Yeah, I figured. xp to jho.

*trades guns for tasers, moves to new york*

what is this country coming to

what kind of guns would new york state let me play with? handguns or can i whip out an M16 when the jehovah's witnesses pop round?

Wat?? Alameda is a genuinely nice place. Plus it's in close proximity to San Fran and Oakland, which isn't as bad as the tourists make it out to be.

i dont particularly know, automatic weapons are illegal - you can get a semi auto ak or whatevs no prob, as to whether you can fire it on yr property has a lot to do w/local ordinances, generally the less people you live near the more likely it is you are allowed to fuck w/guns, pointing weapons at church going folk is frowned upon tho

The subtle art of non-brandishing is key.

i just happen to be holding this gun

"No Soliciting" signs are very helpful in separating the door-to-door church folk from illiterate maniacs clearly hell-bent on doing you and your family harm.

lol ilx etc

Alameda for location, Woodstock for the property itself.

^My parent's house had one for years... mormons arrived despite. Basically their train of thought, after reading the sign, goes "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED".

cody house is straight up grotesque

― ice cr?m, Friday, January 7, 2011 10:03 AM

srsly

cody house architect:

http://sarafine.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/devendrabanhartb.jpg

i dont really like any of these houses this time tbh, woodstock master bath looks p pleasant tho

alameda one is ok

yeah also alameda's climate/location beats woodstock

alameda is charming but kinda the burbs so i dunno abt that

Alameda sits adjacent to the Oakland Airport which is rad if you're into jet-noise.

and who isnt to be frank

orig thread

Wonder how much the $700k homes in the OG thread are appraissed for now...

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1109-N-Rodney-St-Wilmington-DE-19806/72955676_zpid/

Whoops.

-$100k in 19 months then off the market

http://blog.getrealinontario.com/media/users/jody/bubly.jpg

oh well just rent til the market improves nbd wha whaaa

The Pueblo in NM is down to $593K asking price:

http://www.trulia.com/property/1058457669-10-Dusty-Trail-Dr-Placitas-NM-87043

that Alameda one is just my style, cozy.

Alameda. Craftsman 4 Lyfe.

Cody is a fun rodeo town.

Check http://www.primelocation.com/ for some nonsense housing and prices.

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the exterior shot of the cody WYO place reminds me of the bluth house

think I would go fo alameda, I would get freaked out by having these floor to ceiling windows that looked out into...the vast desert...

three great, great homes. but i think i'd have to factor in the community. not sure precisely where the NY home is located in the state, but i think the CA home's proximity to SF makes that the choice for me.

incidentally 775K for those homes is -- even in this market -- phenomenal.

love Alameda, but I'd try to brighten up the interior - it takes skill, but I've seen some really well-done homes mixing Crafstman and later modernism

The Cody house would be bitching just because it backs up to a mountain, which equals shooting range to me.

I wouldn't mind summers in Wyoming -- I drove through the state once on the first of August and froze my ass off when we stopped for gas.

don't care for the wyoming house. it's nice and i love the spaciousness, but there's a cartoon western rusticity that grates. plus i'm almost certain i wouldn't care to live in/near cody, WY, so the house itself is beside the point anyway.

both of the others are gorgeous. prefer the woodstock setting (8 acres of woods!), but i'm a west coaster, so alameda sounds great. alameda house does pose obstacles in terms of the dark, woody interior - milo z OTM there. beautiful, but not exactly to my taste . wouldn't want to fuck with it, but nor would i feel entirely trapped by the period and style in deciding how to actually live in it. love the kitchen. then again, love the bath in woodstock. hard to call...

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would live in these 3 tbh altho the florida one is a little too florida or something

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/23/greathomesanddestinations/20110223wyg_ss.html?ref=greathomesanddestinations

All three of those houses on the original post look kinda give me the creeps, they look like sets for poltergeist films or where Whitley Strieber hung out when he was 'abducted'

these do tend to be exclusively drawn from a pool of:

chicago apartments
upstate newyork hideaways
eccentric tucson terracotta clad bungalows
and porched florida playhouses

Austin house does a good job of balancing Craftsman cottage style with modern. I'd still probably strip all the wood and go lighter, though. (WTF at that place going for almost a half-mil in Austin? Real estate prices jumped since the last time I knew anyone shopping down there, I guess.)
Chicago condo is nice, but the kitchen is out of place.
Florida house is Florida-y.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/03/11/greathomesanddestinations/20120311-WYG.html#1
pretty good one

Vermont is sooooo huge for $1.6 mil. Venice looks like it should be half that. San Antonio looks about right for the price, but I don't like it.

I'm surprised the San Antonio house is as old as it is too.

Venice house is dope

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/12/12/greathomesanddestinations/20131212-GH-WYG.html

this week is like the ur-what-you-get-for in showcasing i) too much wood ii) it looks like they shoot porn there & iii) why can i only realistically imagine this place as the scene of some kind of bloody, domestic Capotian carnage happening

I think the Houston house itself is the best of the three. I don't really like the style of the stuff in it, but sweet solarium. The first one does creep me out a little. I hate vaulted ceiling bedrooms, and it looks more like a lodge than a home.

And the third one is just boring and ugly and I can't even believe it's over 1 million.

That first one has a nice exterior and great location and then goddamn the ugliest fucking interior ever. Those floors look terrible. Sure, wide planks if you want to look vintage but they weren't making floors out of 1x12s.

Houston is a malarial swamp and that interior looks like a modernist McMansion in California. The solarium is a nice idea, except that you could only use it for 3 months/year in Houston.

Fake Spanish colonial is NAGL

i wish to die in the california:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/realestate/650000-homes-in-california-florida-and-montana.html?ref=realestate#

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/overseas-property/property-51135473.html